About

I'm Brian Spencer, a reading instruction expert and budding web developer. This blog is my notebook on my web development journey.

Web Development Philosophy

HTML, CSS, and web standards first, heavy JavaScript last, SPAs never.

This site is made with Eleventy 3, starting from the official Eleventy Base Blog 9.0.0.

This site uses the latest version of Web Awesome CSS framework and web components with the Mellow Pro theme.

I use Ruby on Rails for developing web applications whenever a backend is needed. This site does not use Rails, because it is static frontend only.

In general, anytime I need to use a general programming language I prefer to go with Ruby because I like it.